[Cryptography] Statement from Attorney General William P., Barr on Introduction of Lawful Access Bill in Senate

[The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]]

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On Thursday, July 2, 2020 6:41 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:

> If you are using ham radio, using TLS (nee SSL) to hide the
> meaning of a message is illegal. TCP/IP is fine. HTTP should be
> find. HTTPS isn't.

SSL/TLS - Yup.  Illegal.

TCP/IP - Yup.  Legit.

HTTP - Also legal and legit.

HTTPS - Nope.

> One interesting bit here is that many hams are active in
> emergency communication groups. These groups are working in the
> direction of offering email and net access over ham radio. I
> think the just say lalalala very loudly when the issue of
> encryption comes up.

They do.  We ran into that at pretty much every turn.  "Identity theft by individuals
monitoring ARES/RACES medical assistance broadcasts" was considered acceptable risk.

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